Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. The US U20s U20's beat Fiji 3 to 0 on Tuesday their second win of the group stage at the U20 World Cup.

They're all but assured of some kind of advancement at the U20 World Cup, they're all but assured of some kind of advancement

at the U20 World Cup. It was an odd game. Fiji was dramatically overmatched and

conquered completely. They barely got out of their half all game.

But the US couldn't get the breakthrough

until the 66th minute.

Here to break it down with me is Marcus Chorez,

the man behind the US Soccer Collective, which specializes in

tracking elite youth soccer prospects. Marcus, thank you for being here and how are you doing?

Thanks, bells, I'm great.

Happy to be here and doing all right. No complaints.

Good. How are things in California?

I'm in Santa Barbara right now and for those that haven't been here it's a kind of a

paradise of a place definitely a place I'd live if if I could right yeah

it's I mean I live in Sonoma so I'm not complaining it's not too bad there either is it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. California's great. All right. Well, let's some maybe any any high-level thoughts before we get into the lineups. What are we taken away from this game?

I mean, not a lot right and I

don't think we expected to have a lot of insight into this game though I do think

there's some things maybe some players that we that are sort of materializing as like probably the guys we're

gonna have to lean on to create chances as we go through the tournament yeah so we

can talk a little bit about that I think the game sort of went as expected.

The run of play was obviously very much dominated by the United States. As you said, it took a while to break through by longer than

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